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Short term beneficial but long term negative effects of sleep deprivation on depression are literally so sinister I was up until a bit after 5am last night and now I'm like wow this is the best I've felt in weeks I should do this every day but alas...

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Sisters of mercy: Iconic gothic rock band that is generally considered the most influential on the development of the 'gothic rock' subgenre of goth music

Komatiite: Ultramafic igneous rock formed in the Archean. This one shows a 'spinifex' texture named after a plant that will stab you horribly and then the spike on the end of the plant will break off in your leg and you will get home from your first semi arid field work experience where you went 'oh well this is a bit painful but they're everywhere and I can't be bothered to keep detouring to avoid walking through them' to discover at least 70 splinters in your legs (actually the plant commonly known as spinifex that stabs you that this rock texture is named after is plants in the Tridodia genus not the genus Spinifex but whatever...)

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Obsessed with the diversity of sea slug shapes and colors!

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OHHH AWESOME AND A BUNCH HAVE GOT TO RG FROM THE ORIGINAL UPLOADER AUTOMATICALLY AGREEING SO THEY'RE GOING TO BE ON THE ALA DISTRIBUTION MAPS NOW

It's just spectacularly exasperating how there can be one (1) publication on a spider family on a continent in the past 20 years, and that publication describes 5 new genera and says that you need microscope examination of genitalia to identify them to genus and that there's still a bunch of undescribed ones around and yet people think it's a really great idea to go around on inaturalist identifying those spiders to species based on one normal photograph! okay!!!

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4:30am on the wikipedia page for miocene

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When I captured the Aurora at Mono Lake… - Author: DanZafra_photography

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👀👀👀👀

😭😭😭

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Which brings me to probably my most controversial opinion among the people I hang around with on tumblr which is that people seem to have a scale of like 'most to least humanity' which goes 'art by one person singing or whatever' > 'mechanical effects' > 'computer effects ('soulless' and therefore evil)' but I really see it as the other way around? If you're just one person singing or drawing with graphite or whatever you can just do that whereas things like electronic programmed music are based on hundreds of thousands of years of humans across the world building on each other's inventions or whatever I get way more sentimental about that I guess

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Experimental music is so fun I love when there's a weird noise and you're like wait was that the lead singer or computer generated or perhaps the iconic random sheet of metal

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It's just spectacularly exasperating how there can be one (1) publication on a spider family on a continent in the past 20 years, and that publication describes 5 new genera and says that you need microscope examination of genitalia to identify them to genus and that there's still a bunch of undescribed ones around and yet people think it's a really great idea to go around on inaturalist identifying those spiders to species based on one normal photograph! okay!!!

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a great blue heron at dawn and dusk

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Schalow’s Turaco (Tauraco schalowi), family Musophagidae, order Musophagiformes, found in tropical central Africa

photograph by Niel Cillié

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“But they forget”

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Giant jewel beetle, Sternocera chrysis, Buprestidae

Found in South Asia

Photo 1 by gsachar, 2-4 by gurumukhi, 5 by paulmathi, and 6-7 by subbu107

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Goldenrod Crab Spider (Misumena vatia)

Observed by jouline05, CC BY-NC

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in 6 weeks time not grey normal appetite and being able to get out of bed at a normal hour hopefully... #UnDraculaed

Iron infusion was kind of funny though because I've been deficient basically my whole life and I just kind of thought I was naturally greyish tinted 😭 but I look more normal now and keep seeing myself in a mirror and going oh so it was literally just that my blood sucked